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As society teeters on the brink of nuclear apocalypse, Markus Moksha, an oversexed alcoholic anthropologist, encounters Dordogne, a telepathic woman from the future who recognizes his import to the fate of humanity.

Following a drunken, hedonistic night out on the town in New Orleans, successful businesswoman and sexual deviant Claire Jepson accidentally soils herself in her expensive car. The resulting excrement comes to life as a terrifying, sardonic fecal spirit and not only dishes out a particularly gruesome death to Claire’s unfaithful, gold digging fiancé, but also thwarts a kidnap/murder plot by her employees and introduces Claire to a world of depraved pleasures beyond even her depraved imagination.

Als Cal ein Jahr nach seinem ersten Treffen mit Prinz Jasper von der Queen höchstpersönlich zu dessen offiziellem Partner ernannt werden soll, verläuft nicht alles nach Plan. Jasper, der als zukünftiger König auf keinen Fall einen Mann heiraten darf, macht Cal spontan vor der gesamten Festgesellschaft einen Antrag. Davon sind die Oberen der Anglikanischen Kirche gar nicht begeistert und prompt steht der Bischof von Canterbury an Weihnachten vor der Tür. Die einzige Lösung für die prekäre Lage: eine offizielle Trennung.

Life with the Blessings and Curses Volume 2: The Last Dance and Ascent. He was a message carrier. Now he carries a nation. Well returned from death with cursed skills and a vow to bring law to the Commoner Land. But in Aaravlok, law has a price. When 100,000 bandits and a Demon King attack, Well...

Meet Emily: fashion intern, hornbag and aspiring writer. So there’s dull, and then there's my life – that is, until the day before I stumble tits-first into an internship at Hayes Couture International, where everyone's as sharp as a Louboutin heel and twice as deadly. Oh, and my boss? None...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Aquel hombre era todo de lo que ella había decidido huir... Haley Watson había besado a demasiados príncipes azules, hombres guapísimos con tremendos inconvenientes como la infidelidad que había demostrado su último novio. Entonces, si...

“পদে পদে মিল খুঁজে, গুনে দেখি চৌদ্দ এই দেখ লিখে দিনু কি ভীষণ পদ্য।' পাগলা দাশু বাংলা সাহিত্যের খুবই জনপ্রিয়...

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

Jerusha "Judy" Abbott's life is drastically changed one day when a mysterious and rich benefactor scoops her up from an orphanage - the only home she has ever known - and offers to pay her way through college. Her benefactor has many requests, the two most important being that she uses this opportunity to become a writer, and that she writes him monthly to update him on her studies.

A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your face written especially by 10 best-selling novelists. From a hilarious race against time to a moment of unexpected eavesdropping, from righting wrongs in rural India to finding joy in unlikely places, these stories are all rich in wit and humour, guaranteed to lift your spirits and warm your heart.

Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing.

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT’ – STYLIST 'MADDENING, MESMERISING, INGENIOUS’ – NEW YORK TIMES 'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE’ – JENNIE GODFREY 'DERANGED...

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and - with a little encouragement from her friends - a few blind dates.

お江戸は本所亀沢町にある貧乏長屋。万造、松吉の「万松」コンビを筆頭に、左官の八五郎・お里夫婦や後家女のお染、浪人の島田鉄斎ら個性的な面々が住んでいる。

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby...

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

The fabulous first Shopaholic novel by international No. 1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella! Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She’s a financial journalist who spends all day writing articles on how to manage money wisely. Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and...

“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and...

“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of...

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. And he is taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare...